New York: Random House, 1975. First edition - Uncommon example of the earliest advance issue for Angelou's fourth book- her second volume of poetry. On the cover are the words "uncorrected first proof." and inside the back cover is the stamped statement Crane Duplicating Services, Barnstable, Massachusetts. 49 pp.

New York: The Century Company, 1913. Hardcover first edition - A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. Although the actual publication of this book preceded the Great War and the beginning of the Golden Age of Detective fiction, Haycraft considers this the first detective novel of the modern era ('Murder for Pleasure, p. 113) This was first accepted for publication by Century, but both the US and UK editions (under the better known title "Trent's Last Case") appeared virtually simultaneously in March 1913. Not only was this novel extremely influential, it remains a pleasure to read (or re-read) more than 100 years later. Despite the UK title, this is the first novel to feature Trent. 300 pp.

Chicago: DuSable Museum, (1984). First edition - A slim collection of twelve poems. Hummons was the sister of Margaret Taylor Burroughs, Chicago educator, activist, artist and one of the founders of the Du Sable Museum. 20 pp. Uncommon (only one copy located in Worldcat)

New York: Exposition Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegees alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.

New York: Exposition Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of African-American music from the ante-bellum South to the Fisk Jubilee Singers through the 1950s. Jackson focuses mainly on the tradition of black spirituals as they lead to African-American classical composers. Jackson himself was a journalist, author, composer, community activist, and postal worker. Among other things, in 1978, he became the Galveston's first Black postmaster, where he served until 1984. While enrolled at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Jackson grew close to composer William L. Dawson, then a professor and director of the schools choir, known as the Golden Voices and later he Jackson founded Tuskegee's alumni choir and served as interim director for the Golden Voices between 1992-96 and 2000-04. Bibliography. 54 pp.

New York: Random House, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's powerful first book, the story of a blues singer trying to come to terms with her womanhood, her family's past and the legacy of slavery. James Baldwin called it "the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred and is occurring in the souls of Black men and women ... it dares to confront the absolute terror which lives at the heart of love." Toni Morrison was Jones's editor on these early books. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-394-493230.

New York: Random House, (1974.). First edition - Uncommon example of the earliest advance issue for this collection of essays and speeches by this noted journalist on many aspects of surviving as a Black person in the US - includes comments on education, crime, drug addiction, welfare, black pride and more. On the cover are the words "uncorrected first proof" with the issue price and date handwritten. Laid in a mimeographed notice from the publisher. 157 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.